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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
4
Mrs. Logan Barcus marks her ninetieth birthday on Christmas Day while locals travel for visits from Downers Grove to Boulder and Glencoe. Christmas parties, bingo on December 26, and hospital news accompany holiday events. Families, friends, and guests from Lake Forest Peoria and Askum mingle as schedules shift for Peoria bus service and local club meetings pause for the holidays.
Listings include for rent six rooms furnace and bath inquire News office. For sale Majestic range two heating stores. Hog tall black Poland China male inquire Ira Bodson. For sale spotted Poland China males Will Wade tor one. A E Cox Coal ready at Cusaca Coal Company at Edwards. Oats corn or livestock accepted in exchange. Martin McWel lough share patronage 6805. Your name printed here until Merch 50 cents.
A retrospective note derides excess praise and salaries tied to folly, urging restraint in praise of longevity and questioning the value of life spent in constant complaint. The tone mixes wry humor with social critique, reflecting on public attitudes toward aging and ambition.
Glasgow invents rubber safety posts for football fields and rubber putty seals glass in metal frames. Germany introduces a building material made from rubbish via chemical process. England perfects printing on thin wool and heavy cloth. A new explosive, nitrainen VU Limes stronger than INT, explodes only with a dynamite cartridge. Austria outfits a railroad bus with inner rubber tires on steel wheels. Sweden amends a club calendar to handle leap years.
Dr William Chorpe of England cautions nicotine remnants in old pipes may cause death. A New York demonstration shows a device detecting artificial diamonds and peroxide blends. Hair characteristics may be as unique as fingerprints, while hydrogen in bulbs could stop lighting due to gas cooling. The Welsh foxhound is praised for its nose and tongue, claimed among the oldest breeds. Trees are cited as more mentioned than flowers in the Bible.
Market items show Corn No4 at 46, New Oats No21, Wheat Nee 100, Begs 30. Prices and quantities listed reflect commodity quotations and futures context with limited descriptive detail.
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